The Insider

-(HORNS HONKING) -(PEOPLE CLAMORING)

-(HORN HONKING) -(WOMAN SHOUTING)

-Coffee? -Yeah, thank you.

How have you liked your stay?

-What I've seen, I've liked. -(SPEAKS ARABIC)

Please to explain why I should agree to interview

with pro-Zionist American media?

Because I think Hezbollah

is trying to broaden into a political party right now,

so you care about what you're thought of in America,

and in America at this moment in time, Hezbollah does not have a face.

That's why.

Perhaps you prove journalism objectivity,

and I see the questions first.

Then I decide if I grant the interview.

No, we don't do that.

You've seen 60 Minutes and Mike Wallace,

so you know our reputation for integrity and objectivity.

You also know we are the highest-rated, most-respected

TV magazine news show in America.

So, Mr. Wallace... Should he get on a plane or not?

Tell him I'll see him day after tomorrow.

That's good. That works.

I want to ask you something. I know it sounds odd, but...

Hello? Sheikh?

-Norman? -What? What?

Take your blindfold off.

Welcome to the world.

Fluctuating all over the place.

Anywhere we shoot here, it's gonna be portable gennies and we'll run cable.

-Hello? -Mike, it's me. We're on.

-Hi, honey. -Hi, Daddy.

What's new?

Miss Loughrey gave me a star today.

Yeah? What for?

-For reading. -That's great.

A little early for cartoons, isn't it?

Okay.

Deborah? Debbie?

Oh, I didn't know you were home. It's early, isn't it?

Gotta take Debbie to ballet.

Mommy!

Sweetheart, come on. Come on.

She was playing with my Pooh doll again.

Slow down, slow down, slow down. Breathe deep, breathe deep.

-(HYPERVENTILATING) -Slow down, honey. Slow down.

Slow down.

Here we go.

-Deep breaths. Deep breaths. -She was playing with the Pooh doll.

Pooh's dusty, sweetheart.

He's dusty and you breathed him in, okay?

So, what's happening to you... Look at me.

What's happening to you now is cells called "mass cells"

told your lungs, "Don't breathe any more of that dust in."

And the airways in your lungs are like branches,

and when the branches close up, you get an asthmatic attack,

and we give you medicine and you get better. Uh-huh? Okay?

Better already, aren't you?

Okay, baby?

Can I go to dance tomorrow? I'm better.

If you are, then I'll take Barbara to soccer and take you to dance after.

I can take her.

Don't you have to be at the office?

-Is there any more rice? -Yes, it's on the stove.

Do you want more rice? Maybe later.

How about you? I'll take some.

Instant rice?

Can I go over to Jeanine's house?

I'm sorry, darling. Have you seen my coffee mug?

Try the car.

What are those boxes?

I'm going to the store. You need anything?

-What do you need at the store? -Soy sauce.

Right now?

That's my stuff from the office.

Why did you take your stuff from the office?

-I didn't want to leave it there. -I don't understand.

I got fired this morning.

Where else am I gonna take it?

Why?

-Who said? -Thomas Sandefur.

What are we supposed to do?

What about our medical coverage? What about our health?

What about our car payments? The payments on this house?

The severance agreement includes cash payoffs over time

and continuing medical coverage.

-(GASPS) -Sure you don't need anything?

No, thank you.

Jeffrey?

I am very pleased to receive you as my guest, Mr. Wallace.

Well, thank you for having us.

Think I got a problem with the gennie. I gotta go outside.

Give me a hand with this, will you?

Norman!

-He says, you must not sit so close. -What?

I can't conduct an interview from back there.

You must move back your chair.

Well, you tell him that when I conduct an interview,

I sit anywhere I damn please.

There is no interview.

You!

I'm talking to you!

What the hell do you think I am, a 78-year-old assassin?

You think I'm gonna karate him to death with this notepad?

-Are you interpreting what I'm saying? -Yes.

-We're there. -Good.

Well, ask him ifArabic is his second language.

-Don't interpret that. Hold it. -(SPEAKING IN ARABIC)

Hold it! Hold it! Slow! Slow!

Sheikh, do you mind?

If you would just turn your chair a little bit to face Mr. Wallace.

-Is that okay? -Okay.

Are you ready or do you wanna keep fucking around

and warm up some more?

-No, I've got my heart started. -Okay.

All right, Todd.

Give me the three-button on Mike, please.

Good. Good.

Okay, we are rolling.

Okay, Mike.

Sheikh Fadlallah, thank you so much for seeing us.

Are you a terrorist?

Mr. Wallace, I am a servant of God.

A servant of God? Really?

Americans believe that you, as an Islamic fundamentalist,

that you are a leader who contributed to the bombing of the US Embassy.

Everybody thinks Canadian Mounties ride horses

and rescue ladies from rapids.

Mike, they backed locals in Oka in a fight with Mohawks

over building a golf course on their burial site,

-they beat up protesters at Kanehsatake. -(PHONE RINGING)

-Where'd you hear that? -Hello.

Oh, someone took a poll? "Are all things Canadian boring?"

-It's Stuart. He's in Mexico City. -Oh. Let me call you back.

Yeah, Stuart?

-What New York bank? -Hey, Dad.

Will he go on camera and talk about the Mexico City branch?

-Hey, Jake. -Whose money are they laundering?

-No classes this morning? -I don't have to be there till 1 0:30.

-Hey, Mom. Hello. -Hi, sweetheart.

-Hello? Yeah. -Do independent sources corroborate?

-Dad, you got a box out here. -Let me see this a second.

'Cause I gotta know where you're going at all times.

I can't. I've gotta fly to Boston tomorrow.

2:00 p.m. Great. Bye-bye

"Ignition propensity." You understand any of this?

No. (CHUCKLES)

This looks like a table of temperatures.

-Who's this from? -It's anonymous.

References to "P.M."

It's gotta be Phillip Morris, huh?

Hmm. I have to take a shower.

Yeah?

-Hi, this is Doug Oliver. -Oh, hi, Doug. It's LoweII.

I'm doing this story on fire safety,

and people burning up from falling asleep smoking.

I receive a shitload of scientific papers from inside Phillip Morris.

Anonymous. You or anybody in FDA

know someone who can translate this stuff into English for me?

Uh, yeah.

Hello?

Mr. Wigand, please?

Someone's calling for Daddy, Mom.

Oh. Thank you, Bob.

-Who's calling? -My name is Lowell Bergman.

-Did you say "Berman?" -No, Bergman. B-E-R-G-M-A-N.

-I'm a producer for 60 Minutes. -60 Minutes?

Yeah.

-60 Minutes, the television show? -Yes.

He doesn't want to talk to you.

How does he know he doesn't want to talk to me?

He doesn't know what I'm calling him about.

He doesn't care to know.